I've been op shopping* a lot over the past year, looking for things I need (and didn't know I needed) for my new home: I've kept myself on a pretty tight budget as I've heard that paying as much as possible off your mortgage in the first year makes a huge difference to how long you spend paying it off, and how much interest you pay in the end.
(I've also been haunting Gumtree, as I've been playing the 'Let's pretend we're just flatting' for the first year game, but that's a whole different post).
On a recent op shop jaunt I picked these up from various op shops for a total of $15:
I started that on yesterday,
And since the rest of the op-shopped pieces were asian-flavoured, the way forward seemed clear.
It's a small kitchen so they display the dishes of the day under the counter for customers to chose from.
Trays and takeaway cutlery are available at the register, if you choose to 'dine in'.
(*thrift shopping for those of you in the US, and charity shopping for those in the UK. The rest of the world, you're on your own, but I'm sure you know what I mean!)
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Charity shops, in the U.K., are known as "chazzas"!!!!
I didn't know that! Here we shorten the names of the organisations that run the two main chains:
St Vincent De Paul becomes 'Vinnies'
Salvation Army becomes "Salvos' (although, across the ditch in New Zealand, they're 'Sallies').
Ah, the linguistics of op-shop naming... :-)
In the Netherlands, we go to "de kringloop" or the recycling shop. Very common over here, very popular too, it's a household word. They're everywhere, mostly commercial, some municipal, not charity so much.
Hi Petra: that's fascinating that they're mostly commercial in the Netherlands. How does that work? Do people still donate their unwanted goods to the shop or do they get paid for them (we have a couple of fashion resale shops here in Canberra that works that way and in Wellington NZ, they have fashion consignment shops where they sell on your behalf...)
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